- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 05:20'
- genre : music video
- producer : Alexander Solovyov
written by Alexander Solovyov
produced by Georgiy Cherdantsev, Kesh, Alexander Efoshkin, Alexander Solovyov
DoP Alexander Efoshkin
music by "Modem"
editor Alexander Solovyov
production designer Olga Shamba
cast: Tim Vikhornov, Kian Vikhornov, Elena Nam, Mikhail Kim
Nine-year old Kim lives in North Korea. Surrounded by a totalitarian regime every day is the same - until the moment when Viktor Tsoy’s rock concert interferes with the usual TV Signal. Kim is shocked by what he sees and becomes obsessed by the rock star, trying to move and dance like him. Kim is not the same person anymore, but will his new personality be accepted by his surroundings?
- Tracks Music Awards, Best Music Video of the Month (2020, USA, Los Angeles)
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival, Best Music Video (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film festival «East&West. Classics and Avant Garde» (2020, Russia, Orenburg)
- Nicht-Museum Zeitgemäßer Kunst (2020, Germany, Dresden)
- SHORT to the Point International Short Film Festival, Best Music Video (2020, Romania, Bucharest)
- Portobello Film Festival (2020, UK, London)
- International Music Video Underground (2020, Paris, France)
- Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (2020, United States, Lilburn)
- Exground Filmfest (2020, Germany, Wiesbaden)
- Bogota Short Film Festival (2020, Colombia, Bogota)
- China International New Media Shorts Festival (2020, China, Shenzhen)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short film Festival (2020, India, Madurai)
- International Youth Festival of Television Films and Programs "Telemania", 2st place in the category "INDIVIDUAL" (2020, Russia, Moscow and Saint Petersburg)
- All-Russian Film Festival "Russian Elementary Cinema" [REC], Best Music Video (2020, Russia, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, St. Petersburg)
- Video-art Festival "Black and White Rainbow", 3rd Place in the Short Fiction Film Category (2020, Russia, Togliatti)
- Rock 'n' Roll Film Festival (ROFFEKE) (2021, Kenya, Nairobi)
- Busan International Short Film Festival (2021, South Korea, Busan)
- Grenzland-Filmtage Selb International Film Festival (2021, Germany, Selb)
- Cine-Maniacs Filmfest, Honorable Mention (2021, Germany, Turkheim)
- MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Gathering (2021, Hungary, Győr)
- Minsk International Short Film Festival "Kinosmena" (2021, Belarus, Minsk)
- Fillum International Storical & Short Film Festival (FISSF), 1st Place in "Storical category" (2021, USA, Boston)
- International Short Film Festival "The Unprecedented Cinema" (2021, Estonia, Maardu, Tallinn)
- International Film Festival "Love in every Heart", Best Screenplay (2021, Russia, Dzerzhinskiy)
- Festival International du Film de Nancy (2021, France, Nancy)
- Hamburger Deutsch-Russischen Kinoforum "KinoHafen" (2021, Germany, Hamburg)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Alexander Solovyov was born on 05.09.1988 in Moscow. In 2009 graduated from London College of Communication. In 2011 graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Drama Center in London as a film director. Shoots commercials, TV shows, documentaries, videos and everything else that can be shot.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Tsoy is dead!", music video
2020 - "Chair", short film
2019 - "Praskovya", short film
2019 - "Temple", documentary
2017 - "Cop's Wife", TV series
2014 - "Circles of the Wold", documentary
2014 - "One Game Older", documentary
2013 - "Emergency 71", documentary
2012 - "Spell", short Film
2011 - "Shipment 56", short Film
